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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Charleston, WV

June 18, 1992Union County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 5:55 PM EDT for Union County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1992, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Union County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 83 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 880 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 1:56 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

WVZ006-007-171845-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV
145 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992

AT 127 PM...WEATHER RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...OVER PORTIONS OF VIRGINIA...
WEST VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY. THE AREA STRETCHED FROM PETERSBURG VIRGINIA
THROUGH ALDERSON TO CLINCHCO VIRGINIA AND VAN LEAR KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR WILLIAMSON. ANOTHER STROMG STORM WAS IN NORTHERN
GREENBRIER COUNTY MOVING INTO POCAHONTAS COUNTY.

THE AREA WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR WHILE INDIVIDUAL SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS TODAY COULD BE ACCOMPANIED WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH
YOUR AREA SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES AND TELEPHONES. MOTORISTS DRIVING THROUGH HEAVY DOWNPOUR SHOULD
WATCH FOR PONDING OF WATER IN ROADWAYS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. REMEMBER TO
SHINE HEADLIGHTS ON LOW BEAM.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

...CORRECTED TIMES OF ISSUANCE...

END/SAB

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:41 PM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

WVZ006-007-181945-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV
240 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992

AT 228 PM...WEATHER RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...OVER PORTIONS OF VIRGINIA...
SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY. THE AREA WAS BOUNDED BY MONTEREY
VIRGINIA...RURAL RETREAT VIRGINIA...WEEKSBURY KENTUCKY...AND HUNTINGTON.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN MERCER COUNTY NEAR PRINCETON...EASTERN BLAND
COUNTY VIRGINIA...AND NEAR HOT SPRINGS VIRGINIA.

THE AREA WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR WHILE INDIVIDUAL SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS TODAY COULD BE ACCOMPANIED WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH
YOUR AREA SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES AND TELEPHONES. MOTORISTS DRIVING THROUGH HEAVY DOWNPOUR SHOULD
WATCH FOR PONDING OF WATER IN ROADWAYS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. REMEMBER TO
SHINE HEADLIGHTS ON LOW BEAM.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

END/SAB

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 1:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Pendleton	57 min
Jun 18, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Pendleton	57 min
Jun 18, 2:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Hampshire, Hardy	60 min
Jun 18, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Hampshire, Hardy	60 min
Jun 18, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Madison	64 min
Jun 18, 7:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Delaware, Marion	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.